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• Buddhistische märchen aus dem alten Indien (E. Diederichs, 1921), by Heinrich Lüders and Else Lüders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Senjūshō. (1650), by Saigyō (page images at HathiTrust)

• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 4. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 13 ʻArinthamachādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1929), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān kao nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk 21 Suwannakatchapachādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1929), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 3. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : phāk thī 11 prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1926), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : phāk thī 10 prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1926), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 9. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1925), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 7. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1925), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 2 Suthanu chādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : phāk thī 23 Subin chādok. (Rōngphim Dēli Mē, 1929), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 6. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1925), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 8. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1925), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 4. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1925), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān kao nai prathēt nī tǣ bōrān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 5 Suwannakumān chādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1929), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : prachum nithān nai prathēt nī tǣ bo̲rān 50 rư̄ang phāk thī 14 Suwannasirasā chādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1927), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : patchimmaphāk phāk thī 18 Sīhanāt chādok. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1928), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panyāsachādok : patchimmaphāk phāk thī 17 Sōnanthachādok. (Rōngphim Supphaphāk Wiphat, 1929), by William J. Gedney and Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (page images at HathiTrust)

• We-than-da-ya. (Printed at the American Baptist mission press, 1895), by L. Allan Goss, Ūʺ Obhāsa, and of Leza Kyaung Obhasa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bhagavā gīti kyamʻʺ (Vaṃ Sā Rakkha Piṭakatʻ Cā Puṃ Nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1926), by Layʻ ti Paṇḍita Cha rā Ūʺ Moṅʻ Krīʺ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Taihua shan Zijin zhen liang shi xiu xing Liu Xiang bao juan quan ji (Wenkui ge shu fang, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shanxi Pingyang fu Pingyang cun Xiunü bao juan quan ji (Yu'anshanren chong kan, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Butten setsuwa zenshū (880-02 Tōkyō : Ryūbunkan, Shōwa 2-3 [1927-1928], 1927), by Daijō Tokiwa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Withitachādok : wādūai rātchatham 38 khāthā. (Rōngphim Phračhan, 1927), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sīwichai (Ro̲ngphim Phisān Bannanit, 1908), by William J. Gedney and Prince Chinnawō̜nsiriwat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rư̄ang Thāo Mahā Chomphū : sưng thư̄ kan mā tǣ bōrān wā pēn ton tamnān Phraphuttharūp song khrư̄ang. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1921), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jataka: or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 volumes; 1895-1907), ed. by Edward B. Cowell, trans. by Robert Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, and Robert Alexander Neil (multiple formats at archive.org and sacred-texts.com)
• The Jātaka, Together With Its Commentary: Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha (7 volumes, in Pali with some English notes; 1877-1897), ed. by V. Fausbøll, contrib. by Dines Andersen
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• Prathum chādok : wā dūai kon satrī. (Rōngphim Thai, 1905), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jātʻ ʼaṭṭhakathā nissaya (Kavi myakʻ mhanʻ cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Staroindijske basni, bajke in pravljice : (Jātaka) ("Sroboda", 1921), by F. Plachy and Josip Suchy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jātʻ ʼaṭṭhakathā nissaya (Kavi myakʻ mhanʻ cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jataka tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (Gutenberg ebook)

• Buddhist birth stories : the oldest collection of folk-lore extant (Routledge, 2000), by T. W. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buddhist Birth Stories, or Jātaka Tales: The Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant (only volume published of a planned Jataka translation; London: Trubner and Co., 1880), ed. by V. Fausbøll, trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jataka Tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• More Jataka Tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jataka tales out of old India (G. P. Putman's sons, 1927), by Arnold Hall and Marguerite Aspinwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• We-than-da-ya. (Printed at the American Baptist mission press, 1895), by L. Allan Goss, Ūʺ Obhāsa, and of Leza Kyaung Obhasa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jataka tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (Gutenberg ebook)
• Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1, ed. by V. Fausbøll, trans. by Robert Cæsar Childers and T. W. Rhys Davids (Gutenberg ebook)

• Jataka tales out of old India (G. P. Putman's sons, 1927), by Arnold Hall and Marguerite Aspinwall (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Buddhist stories. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1913), by Paul Dahlke and Bhikkhu Sīlāchāra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhist psalms (J. Murray, 1921), by Shinran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Buddhism, its origin and teachings (Scott, Foresman & Co., 1896), by Elizabeth A. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Páli manuscript, written on papyrus preserved in the library of the Armenian monastery St. Lazaro. (Printed at the monastery, 1875), by J. F. Dickson, Mkhitʻarean Miabanutʻiwn i Vienna, and Italy) Monastero di San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Venice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Avadânas; contes et apologues indiens inconnus jusqu'à ce jour, suivis de fables, de poésies et de nouvelles chinoises (B. Duprat, 1859), by Avadāna and Stanislas Julien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhadatta's manuals (Pub. for the Pali text society by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1928), by Buddhadatta, Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, A. M. Dibben, A. P. Buddhadatta, and England) Pali Text Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paṭisambhidāmagga. (Pub. for the Pali text society by H. Frowde, 1905), by Arnold C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection d'ouvrages orientaux (Imprimé par autorisation du garde des sceaux à l'Imprimerie nationale, 1882), by E. Senart and France) Société asiatique (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism : its history and literature (Putnam, 1926), by T. W. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the Pali Text Society. (Caxton Publications, 1882), by Pali Text Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Mahâvastu; texte sanscrit publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire par É. Senart. (Impr. nationale, 1882), by E. Senart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The imitation of Buddha : quotations from Buddhist literature for each day in the year (Methuen, 1893), by Ernest M. Bowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscript remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan (The Clarendon Press, 1916), by A. F. Rudolf Hoernle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhistische Evangelien : eine Auswahl von Texten aus den heiligen Büchern der Buddhisten (Schatzkammerverlag Hans Fändrich, 1980), by Karl Seidenstücker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sanskrit texts discovered in Japan. ([London, 1880), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tikapatṭạ̄na of the Abhindhamma pitạka ... (Pub. for the Pali text society, by the Oxford University Press, 1921), by Abhidhamma-Pitạka, Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, Buddhaghosa, and England) Pali Text Society (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthologie bouddhique. (G. Crès, 1924), by René Guyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sutta nipāta = Sutanipāto : one of the oldest canonical books of the Buddhism for the first time edited in Devanagari characters ([s.n.], 1924), by P. V. Bapat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some Buddhist fragments from Chinese Turkestan in Sanskrit and "Khotanese," (Luzac & Co., 1915), by J. N. Reuter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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